The Bumpy Road

When things don’t go the way I expect, or I get caught up in the stresses of everyday life it is sometimes hard for me to shake it. Really I don’t know why it is so easy to get caught up in the small bumps life hands us. I feel like I have gotten better, but sometimes I just can’t brush things off as easily as I would like.

Today I was handed a bigger bump in my road. Big bumps do a good job of making everything else seem so petty. The big bumps make me realize how much I have as opposed to what I don’t have. It makes me realize how much is going right instead of how much is not going right.

I don’t want the big bumps to make me realize how blessed I am, I want to live out that realization everyday. I don’t want to miss out on the greatness of life just because the road gets a little bumpy.

No More Drama

So today I heard a lady talking at church, and although what she said was simple it was literally a light bulb moment for me.

She said that up until a week ago she felt like her life was a mess, that there were just so many bad things happening to her. When she began to think about the things that were stressing her out, she realized she was stressing over the problems of her son, problems of her friends and problems of her mom. That her drama wasn’t really her drama at all, but it was really the drama of the people around her.  The more she thought about it, the more she realized that she had no drama! As much as she loved all the people in her life, she knew it was those loved ones that had to deal with it. She could be there to support them, but to carry their drama was not beneficial to anyone.

I can’t make people’s drama my drama. I have a hard time with that because I always think I can help fix things. So the “me in training” is going to remember to put the things I am stressing about in perspective. There will be plenty of my own drama moments to deal with, taking on the world’s will do no one any good. 

Like I said at the beginning, such a simple concept yet easy to forget!